Better automatic guidance when questions are closed
Thousands of questions get closed every day over the network, and newer users are more likely to get their questions closed. Yet little guidance is given to new users, so to be helpful, close voters often resort to canned comments! The informat...

I'm surprised this wasn't brought up in the original post, seems like some of the more low hanging fruit.

user315433

1:44 AM

Quiz: name a part of SEQP 1 that made noticeable difference in how the sites operate.

user315433

"Two more queues on the review page" doesn't count.

user202362

2:01 AM

I am yet to see piglet with a single horn - shall we call 'em uni-piglet?

The "best joke of the day" awards must go to the "snapshot" supports for VM.

I already knew that snapshots aren't really supported, so users rely on powershell and use scripts that copy the machine HD and then for restoring them create A COPY of the machine (since swapping disks isn't possible)

but only today I have seen this article.

Basically, Microsoft proudly announces they have resolved the snapshot problem (going as far as marking multiple suggestions on Connect as done)

by giving out a back-up vm support

The issue? The "back-up" infrastructure is built with disaster recovery in mind.

You can schedule automated back-ups based on time and retention.

You can't create a "one time only" snapshot that you just need to test the installation of a patch or something on a vm...

I guess that I could see WHY they want me to put my VM under a back-up plan....

So many VM backups created automatically... so much storage being bought automatically...

Yes, I have to admit it. I don't like horror movies because (shocker) I find them scary. Unlike other people in my house, I do not like being scared. Especially right before I go to bed. I dislike going into haunted houses. I also dislike being alone in the dark.
This is not to suggest I'm a pa...

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@Derpy of course. I think Microsoft (that is whatever PM/VP responsible for those emails) said to a low level employee "write something nice that will sound good" and that's what they're sending, without ever really even reading what they actually say to people. That fits them perfectly.

@ShadowWizard Look. It is pretty evident that they are currently putting a lot of effort in trying to increase the office 365 / SharePoint online dev base, and the fact that Microsoft "employee" have started monitoring sharepoint.stackexchange for question about the new "SharePoint Client Framework" (and actually replying too) seem to only confirm that

I believe they meant it when they claimed that the program is open to anyone who wants to learn office 365 development, employed devs or simple students all alike.

It is just the form that could use a little more... tlc.

one could just put "none" in the company name but what about the company phone?

Suppose that an user decides today that he is going to downvote each single one of Skeet posts. He doesn't do that "in bulk", but just start to downvote a post every 3 days, disregarding content and just voting without reason, because he wants to.

V2 Suppose that an user decides today that he is going to downvote random people posts for the fun of it. He doesn't do that "in bulk", but just start to downvote a post every 3 days, disregarding content and just voting without reason, because he wants to.

Now the votes aren't target at the users, because he chose who to downvote at random. Should they still be reversed? Don't focus on HOW you can detect this, just if you think it is desirable to reverse them.

Suppose that an user decides today that he is going to downvote each single one of Skeet posts. He doesn't do that "in bulk", but just start to downvote a post every 3 days, disregarding content and just voting without reason, because he wants to.

@AaronHall I can believe that, but my focus was to see if users where more inclined on noticing the abuse in targeting a specific (and very famous) user with "noise votes" or the fact that "the troll" was introducing noise in votes regardless of the target.

I think there's always noise. You proposed a slight increase in noise, and then asked if we'd like to remove it. To me, the target doesn't matter, I'd like to eliminate the noise, but I know we can't eliminate it, so I'm over it.

Which leaves me with my final "provocation/discussion seed". Since Stack is focused on content and not users, shouldn't also rules that protect us be focused on eliminating the noise on content instead that the noise on users?

@Derpy sure - how will you identify it? you want to have an algorithm that looks for "random but regular" voting by individuals on the assumption that the individual is a bad actor intent on introducing noise into the system? I don't see how that makes sense.

Yeah, for as long as the link stays alive on the OpaVote site. Which is somewhat shorter than forever.

user315433

8:17 PM

With 1432 rep on Web Applications, jonsca is the lowest-rep elected mod on Stack Exchange. (By rep at present time, rather than at time of election, but probably true both ways.) The second place is cnst with 2164 rep on Law.

user315433

More trivia: TeX - LaTeX has the highest min(rep(mod)) on the network. Every mod has at least 143,602 rep on that site.

I'm doing debate. Our resolution is "Resolved: On balance, the benefits of the Internet of Things outweigh the harms of decreased personal privacy.". The resolution obviously sucks, but I figured out how to win the affirmative side every time.

IoT will fix colony collapse disorder and prevent the fall of bees and humanity.

Grr. Dropped to 124 rep because of downvoting the answers to SEQP2 post. Need moar rep. Have two ideas for a FR, trying to decide which one to post: (1) Require downvotes with comments. If a comment parses like an equivalent of "what have you tried" or "show your code", it can't be posted until the commenter downvotes the question. (2) A new review queue, in which to review proposals for new review queues.